Subject: King & Spalding Client Alert: Target and Neiman Marcus Face Government Probes and Litigation
From: "King & Spalding" <[email-masked]>
To: "Biden, Hunter" <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 03 Feb 2014 12:06:27 -0500

King & Spalding

CLIENT ALERT

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Privacy and Information Security Practice Group

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Target and Neiman Marcus Face Government Probes and Litigation as a Result of Holiday-season Cyberattacks 

The massive holiday hacking of consumer information belonging to Target and Neiman Marcus customers has the impacted retailers under a microscope.  State Attorneys General across the country have banded together to launch a “national investigation” into the data breaches that, in the case of Target, impacted approximately 70 million customers. The U.S. Secret Service and Department of Homeland Security are conducting their own investigations and have partnered with private-sector executives to identify the perpetrators, most recently believed to be teenage Russian cyberthieves.  

More » http://www.kslawmail.com/rs/ct.aspx?ct=24F76614DFAE4EE0CDD881AAD72D941091A34585FEA521A

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Author(s):

Barry Goheen     http://www.kslawmail.com/rs/ct.aspx?ct=24F76614DFAE4EE0CDD881AAD72D941091A54688E9B433E45
J.C. Boggs     http://www.kslawmail.com/rs/ct.aspx?ct=24F76614DFAE4EE0CDD881AAD72D941091A04687EBA2212
Phyllis B. Sumner     http://www.kslawmail.com/rs/ct.aspx?ct=24F76614DFAE4EE0CDD881AAD72D941091B15C8DE2B42FE46
Christopher C. Burris     http://www.kslawmail.com/rs/ct.aspx?ct=24F76614DFAE4EE0CDD881AAD72D941091A05C92FEB82EE41
Alexander K. Haas     http://www.kslawmail.com/rs/ct.aspx?ct=24F76614DFAE4EE0CDD881AAD72D941091AA4881FFAD8
John A. Drennan     http://www.kslawmail.com/rs/ct.aspx?ct=24F76614DFAE4EE0CDD881AAD72D941091A65B85E2BF3CF667A 
Sarah E. Statz     http://www.kslawmail.com/rs/ct.aspx?ct=24F76614DFAE4EE0CDD881AAD72D941091B15D81F8AB216 
Elizabeth K. Hinson     http://www.kslawmail.com/rs/ct.aspx?ct=24F76614DFAE4EE0CDD881AAD72D941091AA408EFFBE33E44 

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